Thursday, 29 January 2009

My first IF in ages! I had a funny (ish) one in mind but in the end two therapeutic doodles won out. I have no idea why the moon ladder... guess that says something about my subconscious at present...?

Tuesday, 27 January 2009

It's been so long since I posted last... I don't know where the days have gone...? You know how sometimes you get fixated on an idea then as you work on the picture you realise it isn't living up to what you originally had in your minds eye... well this post is it. I've always loved the graphical simplicity of the London tube map and the way Harry Beck's original design approach has developed into an iconic image. The whole tree/tube notion has been floating around in my head for weeks now and I decided to do something with it. This doesn't do the idea justice but to honest I think it's a dead end path for the present and I need to get onto more productive projects. Plus I sometimes find working in adobe illustrator a bit sterile. This post felt a bit like doing a maths problem. Ho hum, you live and learn with every picture don't you.

Sunday, 18 January 2009

This tales moral, if you want to be well fed,TV in moderation and try and be well read.

Now I'm the last person to find fault with TV as a whole (you should see my TV shows DVD shelf...) but without sounding too opinionated there has been a greater deal of tossycock on the box of late! Reading seems so much more consistant (if you pick the right books that is (the only thing I have more of than DVD's is books...!). At least with less to tempt on TV it's easier to put in the hours on the blog.

After just finishing Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (in my epic rereading of all the Dahl's) I realise I have been treading the same ground with these last few posts as the Mike Teavee Oompa-Loompa song. The more I blog stuff out the more I realise how the influences from my childhood are seeping out. Makes you see just how important children's literature is on malleable little minds! Hope I haven't sounded to preachy. Just a bit of fun.

Now while Tele Bird is a slave to TV,The Bookish Worm favours the library.

For wormy no life spent in televisual haze,better to find books upon which to gaze.

Therein to be found all of lifes pleasures,a gripping good yarn and knowledge to treasure.

I think I might get an ex libris bookplate design out of this one. The writting on the worm's body took longer than expected. It's been so long since I last wrote anything in longhand I've forgotten how. I tried to think back to all the 'sandcastles in a line' exercises we did at primary school to practice before we started longhand proper. I used to get ticks and 'well dones', not any more. Mrs. White would turn in her grave to see that alphabet!

Well I have to do something to cheer myself up for January. I've been reading a lot of Roald Dahl over the last few days. I really like the way he handles his rhymes and I thought I'd have a stab. From time to time I enjoy the structure of having to do a narrative which rhymes. I'm no poet (I know it...) but it's fun nevertheless. Hope you enjoy... if you do there's more of the story to come, so watch this space.